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Cisco IOS

MPLS Management
Technology Overview
Enabling Innovative Services
February 2004
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Agenda
Introduction
Problems, challenges, requirements
Technology Overview
Summary
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Service Provider Problems
Operational Efficiencies
Increase management automation and availability
New Services Provisioning
Enable competitive differentiation and customer retention
through profitable bundled services
Disparate Networks
Manage and consolidate traditional and emerging networks
OSS
OSS
TDM
FR, ATM
TDM
FR, ATM
IP
OSS
OSS
OSS
IP
MPLS
TDM
FR, ATM
OSS
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MPLS Service Provisioning Challenge
10%
Integration with OSS and Billing System
Number of Network Elements Involved
Integrating Multiple
Technologies into a Single Service
Finding Customer
Self-Provisioning Tools that Work
Equipment Manufacturer Management
System Not Designed for Provisioning
Interoperability Among Products
Manual Configuration of Equipment 18%
Challenges in VPN Service Provisioning
Challenges in VPN Service Provisioning
20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
35%
41%
41%
47%
47%
65%
Source: Infonetics, 2003
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Reducing OpEx with Network Management
CapEx typically follows
the economy
OpEx is consistent
Typical ratio of a Tier 1 carrier
CapEx vs OpEx spending
OpEx efficiencies have higher
profitability and a higher ARPU
Source: Frost and Sullivan, 2002
27%
73%
Capital
Expenditure
Operational
Expense
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Quarterly Spending
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$1.0
$2.0
$3.0
$4.0
$5.0
$6.0
$7.0
$8.0
$9.0
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Capital
Expenditure
Operations &
Support
Expense
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Customer Requirements
Provide systemic management solutions for achieving dramatic
productivity gains through automation, intelligence, and
simplification
Enable competitive differentiation and customer retention through
high-margin, bundled services
Provide automated embedded tools
Configuration
Error detection & recovery
Performance and accounting
Perform data plane validation with respect to control plane
Data plane liveliness and troubleshooting
Standards and open interfaces, APIs to management/OSS
applications and third-party software vendors
End-to-end circuit/service-level health/alarm correlation
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Agenda
Introduction
Technology Overview
Summary
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Info Server
VPN Policy
Manager
Cisco Info Center
Cisco

IP
Solution Center
EMS
EMS
CNS Performance
Engine
NetFlow
Collector
ISV Partners OSS
Ingress
PE
CE CE
Egress
PE
Process
Network
Alarms
Determine
Service Impact
VPN Topology
Service Provisioning
Device/Network Provisioning
MPLS Management Life Cycle
MPLS OAM
End-End OAM
Attachment VC OAMs Attachment VC OAMs
PWE3 or
VPN Label
LSP created by LDP and/or RSVP-TE
Fault
Performance
Accounting
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MPLS
Embedded
Management
MPLS Management Architecture
Fault Fault Configuration Configuration
Performance Performance
& Accounting & Accounting
Element Element
Management Management
System System
Alarm Notification
Alarm
Synchronisation
Threshold Alerts
Dagnostic
Monitoring
SNMP Get,
getBulk, Traps
Syslogs
RMON
Config Upload
Incremental
Configuration
Change
Notification
Programmatic
Interface
CLI
TFTP
Data Collection
Data Export
SNMP Get
and GetBulk
Bulk file
transfer
Netflow
Operations Support Operations Support
System (OSS) System (OSS)
Software Partners Software Partners
GUI
CORBA
SNMP
TL1
XML
Telnet Telnet
SSH SSH
CNS Bus CNS Bus
HTTP HTTP
SNMP SNMP
NetFlow NetFlow
Cisco IOS

Software
MPLS
FCAPS
SNMP
XML
CLI
MIBs
LSP Ping
Traceroute
VCCV
Protocol
Enhancements
AutoTunnel
AutoMEsh
Security
Accounting
NetFlow
Performance
SAA
Infrastructure
Enhancements
Cisco IOS
Programmatic
Interface
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MPLS LSP Ping/Traceroute
Draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-xx.txt
IETF Standards IETF Standards
IPv4 LDP prefix
TE tunnel
MPLS PE, P connectivity for MPLS transport, MPLS VPN, MPLS TE
applications
Applications Applications
MPLS LSP Ping (ICMP) for connectivity checks
MPLS LSP Traceroute for hop-by-hop fault localization
MPLS LSP Traceroute for path tracing
Solution Solution
Detect MPLS traffic black holes or misrouting
Isolate MPLS faults
Verify data plane against the control plane
Detect MTU of MPLS LSP paths
Requirement Requirement
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LSP Ping/Traceroute Example
Originating
router
Target
router
MPLS Echo Request
MPLS Echo Reply
TTL=1
Target
router
MPLS Echo Reply
1
2
3 4
9
5
6 7 8
TTL=2
TTL=3
Ping
Traceroute
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MPLS AToM Virtual Circuit
Connection Verification ( VCCV)
Draft-ietf-pwe3-vccv-xx.txt
IETF Standards IETF Standards
Layer 2 transport over MPLS
FRoMPLS, ATMoMPLS, EoMPLS
Applications Applications
AToM VCCV allows sending control packets in band of an AToM
pseudowire. Two components:
Signaled component to communicate VCCV capabilities as part
of VC label
Switching component to cause the AToM VC payload to be treated as a
control packet
Type 1: uses Protocol ID of AToM Control word
Type 2: use MPLS router alert label
Solution Solution
Ability to provide end-to-end fault detection and diagnostics for an
emulated pseudowire service
One tunnel can serve many pseudowires.
MPLS LSP ping is sufficient to monitor the PSN tunnel (PE-PE
connectivity), but not VCs inside of tunnel
Requirement Requirement
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VCCV Example
Attachment VC
LSP Tunnel
LSP Pseudowire
Ping
Attachment VCs
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MPLS Traffic Engineering: AutoTunnel
Primary, Backup, & Mesh Groups
draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-fastreroute-03.txt
draft-ietf-ospf-cap-01.txt
draft-vasseur-mpls-ospf-te-cap-xx.txt
IETF Standards IETF Standards
MPLS VPN with multiservice SLAs (voice, video, and data sites)
MPLS AToM-based Layer 2 services with Bandwidth Assurances
Enhanced SLA service offerings with low packet loss during failure
condition Bandwidth Protection
Applications Applications
Backup AutoTunnelEnables a router to dynamically build
backup tunnels
Primary one-hop AutoTunnelEnables a router to dynamically
create one-hop primary tunnels on all interfaces that have been
enabled with MPLS TE tunnels
Mesh Group AutoTunnel Enables automatic establishment of full-
or partial-mesh of TE tunnels
Solution Solution
Ability to protect links and nodes with no requirement of traffic
engineering
Need to ease configuration of increased bandwidth inventory
MPLS TE designs such as full mesh
Requirement Requirement
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MPLS Traffic Engineering
AutoTunnel Primary & Backup
Router A
Router C
Router B
Router A establishes AutoTunnels to adjacent routers
automates configuration of Link & Node Protection
Router D
Backup AutoTunnel Next
Hop Link Protection
AutoTunnel Backup Next
Next Hop Node
Protection
AutoTunnel
Primary
Router configured with
AutoTunnel Primary & Backup
Manually configured Tunnels take precedence over AutoTunnels
provides tweaking capability for customers
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MPLS Traffic Engineering
AutoTunnel Mesh Groups
Service Provider
Backbone
AutoTunnels belonging
to Mesh Group 1
Partial Mesh of
Physical Connectivity
Routers A, B, C, D, E defined as members of Mesh Group 1
Capable of building multiple meshes for DiffServ aware Traffic Engineering
Automates configuration of full mesh of TE Tunnels resulting in operational efficiencies
Router A
Router B Router C
Router D
Router E
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MPLS-Aware SAA
RFC 1889 Jitter Compliant metrics
IETF Standards IETF Standards
MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE
Applications Applications
Active traffic generation within Cisco IOS using SAA
Jitter, packet loss, latency, connectivity
CPE to CPE, PE to CE, and PE to PE measurements
SAA PE, multi-vrf CE or dedicated SAA router
Solution Solution
IP SLA monitoring for MPLS VPNs
Network performance monitoring per VPN
Hop-by-hop statistics for troubleshooting
Low-cost solution embedded in Cisco IOS Software
Requirement Requirement
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SAA VPN Measurements
Cisco IP Solution
Center
Partner Reporting
Applications
PE
PE
CE
CE
CE
Blue VPN site 3
Blue VPN site 1
Blue VPN site 2
SAA
SAA
SAA
CE
Red VPN site 1
SAA
CE
Red VPN site 2
SAA
PE
PE
Dedicated SAA Router
Dedicated SAA Router
Blue VPN SAA
Measurements
CNS Performance
Engine 2.1
SAA MIB Data
SAA MIB Data
Per VPN Performance Monitoring
Packet loss, Latency, Jitter, Connectivity
PE to PE, CE to CE, PE to CE, PE to remote CE
Cisco

Info
Center
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MPLS-Aware NetFlow
IPFIX WG proposed standard
IETF Standards IETF Standards
MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE
Applications Applications
Cisco IOS MPLS-Aware NetFlow
NetFlow version 9
Label export with destination prefix
Per Label accounting aggregation
CNS NetFlow Collector 5.0
Support of EXP bits as a field to key flow reports on
Using NFC 5.0 + add on PE-PE Traffic matrix module provides PE-PE
traffic matrix aggregation
Solution Solution
MPLS network capacity planning
PE to PE traffic matrix
Per-VPN MPLS accounting
IP flow analysis
Requirement Requirement
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MPLS-Aware NetFlow
MPLS-Aware NetFlow (version 9)
Exports up to three MPLS labels,
and IP packet information
Ideal for Traffic Engineering and
capacity planning
MPLS
Traditional NetFlow
for IP to MPLS traffic
PE
PE
P
P
PE
PE
Traffic Flow
IP
IP
Egress MPLS NetFlow Accounting
for MPLS to IP traffic
MPLS-Aware NetFlow
(version 9)
Performance Data
via FTP
NetFlow Collector
(NFC)
CNS FCAPS
PerfE: NFC VPN Accounting Module (PE-PE)
Partner
Reporting
Applications
Aggreg. Netflow Data
XML
Config control
SAA MIB data
CNS Publish and Subscribe Bus
CNS Publish and Subscribe Bus
CNS Publish and Subscribe Bus
MIB data
Third-Party
NetFlow Collector
NetFlow Data
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MPLS MIBs
MPLS-LSR-STD MIB, MPLS-TE-STD MIB, MPLS-FTN-STD MIB, MPLS-
LDP-STD MIB, MPLS-TC-STD MIB
IETF Standards IETF Standards
MPLS, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-TE
Applications Applications
MIBs: LDP, LSR-MIB, TE-MIB, PPVPN-MPLS-VPN-MIB, PWE3-
MPLS-MIB, MPLS-FRR-MIB
Solution Solution
Standards-based SNMP implementation
Integration with existing OSS and third-party vendors/software
Requirement Requirement
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Cisco Info Center: VPN Policy Manager 3.1
Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager (Cisco Info
Center and IP Solution
Center integration)
correlates network events
to affected services
CIC VPN Policy Manager
available today
Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager 3.1 offers:
New Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager DSA
developed
New Cisco Info Center VPN
Policy Manager policies
developed
Device/Interface/Sub-interface
MPLS VPN subscriber
correlation
MPLS troubleshooting tools
Cisco Info Center
MPLS Trouble
Shooting Tools
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Agenda
Introduction
Technology Overview
Summary
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Summary
Provide systemic,
integrated, and
innovative
manageability solutions
Standards-based open
interfaces for easier and
faster integration
Complete end-to-end
MPLS service and
network management
solutions
Intelligence
Automation
Simplification Productivity
ROI/TCO
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Cisco leads in the MPLS Market
Americas EMEA AsiaPac/Japan
EBT
Korea
Telecom
Over 200 Customers (MPLS Core & L2/L3 Edge)
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Faster
A flexible QoS framework
to enable migration to a
converged infrastructure
Faster
Faster
A flexible QoS framework A flexible QoS framework
to enable migration to a to enable migration to a
converged infrastructure converged infrastructure
Lasting
Extensibility to different
transports with standards-
based open architecture
for investment protection
Lasting
Lasting
Extensibility to different Extensibility to different
transports with standards- transports with standards-
based open architecture based open architecture
for investment protection for investment protection
Smarter
The foundation for more
services and more
revenues
Smarter
Smarter
The foundation for more The foundation for more
services and more services and more
revenues revenues
Cisco IOS MPLS
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Enabling
Innovative
Services
Enabling
Innovative
Services
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